Anxiety as a consequence of liberalization: An analysis of opinion surveys in Estonia

Social Representations of Science and Psychology: Anchoring and Personification

“…Moreover, A-State and A-Trait scores of Russians, both those residing in Latvia and in Russia, are higher than the scores of respondents from other countries. The results of research carried out in Estonia (Ott, Clark, & Ennuste, 1996) demonstrated that the anxiety scores of Russians living in Estonia exceed the anxiety scores of Estonians. Consequently, the anxiety levels of Russian respondents may be attributed to a shared characteristic of their ethnocultural group.…”

“…Research carried out in Estonia (Ott, Clark & Ennuste, 1996) has shown that anxiety caused by economic reforms is correlated to the ethnic group, age and income level of respondents: Estonians have been found to be less anxious about possible unemployment than Russians living in Estonia; elderly respondents and Russians living in Estonia tend to be less supportive of economic and political reforms and are more worried about their consequences. Both Estonians and Russians living in Estonia show anxiety about their social status connected to the ongoing economic and political changes.…”

Resident Aliens? Explaining Minority Disaffection with Democratic Politics in the Baltic States

“…Political economic and gametheory approaches specifically treat individual actors as driven by rational, yet essentially non-political motives, engaging in political action out of normative and value-oriented presumptions. The subsequent waves of democratization additionally pushed theories of democratic change to focus almost exclusively on the actor side of the structureagency dyad, mining survey data for individual perceptions about the political sphere (Ott & Ennuste, 1996;Kolstø & Tsilevich, 1997; Barrington & Herron, 2001).…”